Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 14:31 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: 
> Everyone,
> 
> Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system
> switched to fallback mode automatically.  I thought the problem was
> something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much
> worse and eventually even broke yum.  I decided to start over with a new
> install, but I have not been able to fix the problem.  Of course it is
> easy to blame a kernel update, but I have not seen any other posts that
> specifically address this.  
> 
> This machine is an HP laptop (AMD A4-3300M APU with Radeon(tm) HD
> Graphics × 2) with ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller].
> 
> At the time of the fresh install gnome3 would not work, and
> automatically dropped back to fail safe mode.  
> 
> In the manner that I did on the original install I did the following :
> 
> #1. Install of akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst from rpmfusion
> #2. Removal of nomodeset from grub2.cfg
> 

How did you remove nomodset?
You need to edit /etc/default/grub file to remove the nomodset.
Then run: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

. 
> gnome-shell has been installed :
> Package gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64 already installed and latest
> version
> 
> I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your
> help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Greg Ennis

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